November 1, 2011
A string of courtroom victories by drugmakers in key product liability trials could be a signal that these and other companies can beat back claims in upcoming cases against them. AstraZeneca Plc, Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc. are among …
October 28, 2011
Louisiana must quickly turn over documents requested by oil giant BP, or else face dismissal of its lawsuit against the company for losses caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a judge ruled Thursday. Louisiana faces fines of up …
October 27, 2011
Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. The system-wide failure of the service had left tens of millions of …
October 18, 2011
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. will pay BP Plc $4 billion toward clean-up and victim compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The amount is less than BP might have won in court, but it softens the blow of overall spill-related …
October 18, 2011
Anadarko Petroleum Corp will pay BP Plc $4 billion toward clean-up and victim compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The amount is less than BP might have won in court, but it softens the blow of overall spill-related …
September 19, 2011
Current and former BP executives and directors won dismissal last week of one of several U.S.-shareholder lawsuits filed over last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A federal court in Houston on Sept. 15 said it was more appropriate that …
September 19, 2011
A key court ruling in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill litigation could change the landscape in the massive case — encouraging more plaintiffs to sue, or spurring the parties to make a deal to resolve what could be a …
September 19, 2011
A key court ruling in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill litigation could change the landscape in the massive case – encouraging more plaintiffs to sue, or spurring the parties to make a deal to resolve what could be a …
September 6, 2011
A key court ruling in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill litigation could change the landscape in the massive case — encouraging more plaintiffs to sue, or spurring the parties to make a deal to resolve what could be a …
July 20, 2011
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Toyota Motor Corp. lawyers could appeal a previous ruling allowing consumers without sudden-acceleration claims to join litigation before a Santa Ana, California, court. The ruling by Judge James Selna allows Toyota’s attorneys to …